How to Find Your Tribe; and why it matters
It might sound like a pretty odd question in this modern world of ours (how to find your tribe) but it really isn’t when you think about…
Health and Wellness
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Grace Sees What We Can Be, Not What We Have Been
We definitely need to rethink the way we measure a person – and ourselves. We tend to fixate on the worst moments, as if the sum of…
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Can You Hear Me Now?
If you’re old enough, you may remember the Verizon commercial where a guy wanders around with his cell phone asking, “Can you hear me now?” The gimmick…
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The Perfection of Imperfection: What Futtitinni and Wabi-Sabi Can Teach Us About a Simpler Life
There’s a Sicilian word I’ve come to love: futtitinni. It roughly translates to “don’t worry about it,” though that hardly captures its real essence. It’s often used…
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The Age of the Emotional Roomba
Sometimes it feels like we’ve stopped emotionally being people and started being more like appliances. Not the useful kind that make toast or brew coffee, but the…
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Eight Simple Rules for a Better World
Today I was volunteering at a community free clinic that was being held in a Boy Scout lodge on the grounds of a Methodist church. It’s a…
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Building a Bigger Life Around the Pain
You can’t get rid of painful memories. They’re not stains you can scrub away or files you can delete. They’re part of the structure now; like knots…
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From Neighbors to Corporations: How We Lost the Directness of Living
I sometimes think we’ve all ended up working for a sort of ghost. Not the rattling-chains, moaning-through-the-wall kind, but something maybe worse: a superior who doesn’t even…
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The Three Adjectives That Shape a Fulfilled Life
I was speaking with a friend not long ago, someone who spends his hours alongside me in the work we call charity. He told me that he…
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Alone Together: How Technology Connects Us While Making Us Lonely
Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together is one of those books that hangs around in your mind long after you’ve closed it, not because of any particular shocking revelation,…